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than I thought. We'll see. We'll see. Hey, notes don't stick together. Meanwhile, Columbia University has folded to the Trump demands. So the Trump administration was withholding $400 million of federal funding until Columbia made some specific changes to fight anti-Semitism, which according to the Trump administration they had not done enough of. And you know there were a lot of anti-Israel pro…
← Previous segment →d yep, every single thing you asked for we're going to give you. So we'll see. Wall Street Journal was reporting on that.
And just the news was also, according to New York Times writer Ezra Klein, and he's making a lot of news because he has a new book out. And as you know the Democrats are in bad shape. They don't have leadership and they don't have a direction. So when one of them writes a book that gets a lot of attention, I think the news says finally we found our leader. So let's talk about Ezra Klein and some of the things he found.
One of the things he found is that Trump's ability to get male voters was way bigger than people expected. And when I say way bigger than people expected, I mean everybody except me. I think it was 2016 when I started saying you realize what's happening. The Democrats are becoming the party of women. And do you remember that? Now I don't know if I'm the first political pundit to say we're turning into the male party and the female party, but I was way ahead of the curve. Probably, I don't know, eight years ahead. Here we are.
So here are some of the numbers that Klein was talking about. He says what's crazy is if you look at people under the age of 30, the gender gap has exploded. So 18-year-old men were 23 percentage points more likely to support Trump than 18-year-old women, which is completely unprecedented. This actually this was Shor. Shor would be his co-author. I'm not sure who Shor is.
But part of the mystery is that it's happening in other countries. So if you think oh it's a Trump thing, you know Trump has just a way of attracting men because he has sort of a male energy vibe to him, app
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arently we're seeing a similar kind of shift in Canada, the UK, and Norway. Would you like to know the real answer? You know I always joke when I see scientific stuff and I always joke, it's sort of my ongoing joke, well you could have just asked me because your conclusion is so obvious you didn't need to do the study at all. This is one of those. This is so obvious you didn't need to do the stud…
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